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TIL Dubai held a weight loss competition where they gave out 1 gram of gold for every kilogram lost by the participants

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46gw TIL that there has always been exactly 425 licensed gondoliers in Venice, and up until 2010 not a single one was a woman.
Z9jQ TIL People knew that the Earth was round in Columbus’ times. They just wouldn’t give him a charter for a voyage because they knew that Asia was much further away than he thought.
9YZ0Q TIL Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.
w6m8 TIL all the different “colors” of tea depend on how they’re processed. They’re all from the same plant.
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control